phpseclib: SFTP Examples and Notes

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Action:

<?php
include('Net/SFTP.php');

define('NET_SFTP_LOGGING', NET_SFTP_LOG_COMPLEX);

$sftp = new Net_SFTP('www.domain.tld');
if (!$sftp->login('username', 'password')) {
    exit('Login Failed');
}

// puts a three-byte file named filename.remote on the SFTP server
$sftp->put('filename.remote', 'xxx');
// puts an x-byte file named filename.remote on the SFTP server,
// where x is the size of filename.local
$sftp->put('filename.remote', 'filename.local', NET_SFTP_LOCAL_FILE);// outputs the contents of filename.remote to the screen
echo $sftp->get('filename.remote');
// copies filename.remote to filename.local from the SFTP server
$sftp->get('filename.remote', 'filename.local');$sftp->mkdir('test'); // create directory 'test'
$sftp->chdir('test'); // open directory 'test'
echo $sftp->pwd(); // show that we're in the 'test' directory
$sftp->chdir('..'); // go back to the parent directory
$sftp->rmdir('test'); // delete the directory
// if the directory had files in it we'd need to do a recursive delete
//$sftp->delete('test');
print_r($sftp->nlist()); // == $sftp->nlist('.')
print_r($sftp->rawlist()); // == $sftp->rawlist('.')
$sftp->chmod(0777, 'filename.remote');
//$sftp->chmod(0777, 'dirname.remote', true); // recursively change permissions on a directory
// has the same syntax as http://php.net/touch
$sftp->touch('filename.remote');
$sftp->chown('filename.remote', $uid);
//$sftp->chown('filename.remote', $uid, true); // recursively change the owner
$sftp->chgrp('filename.remote', $gid);
//$sftp->chgrp('filename.remote', $gid, true); // recursively change the group
$sftp->truncate('filename.remote', $size);
echo $sftp->size('filename.remote');
print_r($sftp->stat('filename.remote'));
print_r($sftp->lstat('filename.remote'));$sftp->delete('filename.remote'); // deletes directories recursively
// non-recursive delete
$sftp->delete('dirname.remote', false);
$sftp->rename('filename.remote', 'newname.remote');

echo $sftp->getSFTPLog();
?>

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Uploading files

The function definition for put() is as follows:

function put($remote_file, $data, $mode = NET_SFTP_STRING, $start = -1, $local_start = -1)

Uploading strings vs. files

$sftp->put('filename.remote', 'filename.local') creates filename.remote on the remote server with 'filename.local' as the contents.

$sftp->put('filename.remote', 'xxx', NET_SFTP_LOCAL_FILE) creates filename.remote on the remote server such that the contents of it and filename.local match. ie. with NET_SFTP_LOCAL_FILE it uploads a file and without it it uploads a string.

Resuming transfers

$sftp->put('filename.remote', 'xxx', NET_SFTP_RESUME) will append 'xxx' to filename.remote.

$sftp->put('filename.remote', 'filename.local', NET_SFTP_LOCAL_FILE | NET_SFTP_RESUME_START) will append filename.remote to filename.local.

$sftp->put('filename.remote', 'filename.local', NET_SFTP_LOCAL_FILE | NET_SFTP_RESUME) will append all but the first $sftp->size('filename.remote') bytes of filename.local to filename.remote. The idea being that if your transfer is interupted you can restart it.

Positional control

$start and $local_start give you more fine grained control over this process and take precident over NET_SFTP_RESUME when they're non-negative. ie. $start could let you write at the end of a file (like NET_SFTP_RESUME) or in the middle of one. $local_start could let you start your reading from the end of a file (like NET_SFTP_RESUME_START) or in the middle of one.

Downloading files

The function definition for get() is as follows:

function get($remote_file, $local_file = false, $offset = 0, $length = -1)

Returns a string containing the contents of $remote_file if $local_file is left undefined or a boolean false if the operation was unsuccessful. If $local_file is defined, returns true or false depending on the success of the operation.

phpseclib: SFTP Examples and Notes

Output of nlist() and rawlist()

stat() vs. lstat() vs. size()

Uploading files

Downloading files